Above my bed at Possum Cottage I had an old frangipani photo that was very badly faded so I asked Julie if I could paint over it as I didn’t have any spare canvases.

Three layers of gesso later this created a nice base, then I gridded up the shipwreck ready to paint.

I tried to paint a nice blended sky but it was 35 degrees outside and not much cooler inside due to the lack of air-conditioning. Even with the use of a retarder the paint was still drying rather quickly.

With the constant hot weather I decided to leave this painting for about three months. I was still not a fan of acrylics just yet hopefully this will come.

On the beach I found a large rusty part of the ship that had broken off and decide to add this to the scene. What you can’t see in this painting is the large bulb on the end of it that made it unstable.

Each wave would nock the metal over and I would need to realign it to point at the shipwreck each time.

The only reason that this painting is not for sale is because I’m not sure of the quality of the canvas its painted on.